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reggieandlee

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Tue Nov 19, 2019, 09:43 AM Nov 2019

BTRTN: Republican Impeachment Defense Release 13.0. "The Senate Won't Convict. Screw You, Democrats"

Born To Run The Numbers traces the "software releases" for each successive Republican impeachment defense strategy, and predicts the arrival of the "Release 13.0," and prescribes what the Democrats must do about it.

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2019/11/btrtn-republican-impeachment-defense.html

Excerpts: "I just went on Amazon and found out that there has been another delay in Release 13.0, the new, latest, most up-to-date Republican impeachment defense strategy. Apparently the Republicans are going to wait until E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland testifies, so that they can once again tweak, modify, or completely change their line of defense to adjust to new revelations from his testimony. I am really eager to get the latest release, because they say it will correct a bunch of those buggy patches that made Lindsay Graham appear more twisted than a DNA chromosome. For those of you who are not on the group chat for the software de-bugger, here’s a quick recap of the releases to date..."
"Abuse of Presidential power? Bribery? Extortion? Do any of those crimes really have a chance against Republican Release 13.0? I don’t think so. Not if the Democrats don’t start learning how to play hardball. Dems, there is one war going on in the House Impeachment Inquiry, and Adam Schiff is doing a great job leading that. But there is a second front in this war, and it is being played out in the court of public opinion, and it is here that the Democrats need to step up their game. Dramatically..."
"We can all already see where this is going. The Republicans are going to do, say, and claim anything to justify a vote for acquittal. Democrats need to get out ahead of this story, trace it to the obvious and logical end point of its trajectory, and start litigating that outcome now. Democrats must point out today what Republicans intend to do, and vehemently begin to attack those positions now. There are three keys to this..."

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